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Wow the glass is extra reflective. Are they using glass or chrome for the facade on this one?
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As this creeps skyward, I keep seeing it in places where I realize just how visible this tower will be. Case in point:
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Good point - the core is currently at the 25th floor so imagine it at double that to understand the full height and impact of the building.
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I took these photos on Thursday. The glass is fantastic in person.
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On the webcam, the glass on the east side of the floor above the lobby is complete and they are on the floor above now. Anyone know why they aren’t using fire resistant foam/coating on the floors above the lobby?
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Some pictures I took this afternoon around 2 PM.
I wish they had two webcams facing eastward one looking at the structure as it rises and another to view the bottom of the tower as they constructing the parking garage levels. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...a80df0b1_h.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c80f58c9_h.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...a29d76d5_h.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e14fb64a_h.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...ed357d5d_h.jpg |
I thought this one was going to be boring but it's looking great so far
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^^Yeah totally. I think this one blows 110 out of the water. The details are great.
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Are those grey things on the windows in the first and second picture mechanical floors or something
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this might have the nicest facade of the myriad of Goettsch Towers in Chicago
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In 10 -20 years I think we can look back on this period of blue glass towers and recognize this for the gem it is in terms of facade and location
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From earlier this week:
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I’m definitely digging the cladding so far
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Yep. This glass is first rate.
I've gone from pretty underwhelmed about this tower to now very excited to see the final result. |
I was over on around Clybourn/Webster and Elston/Cortland the other day (Lincoln Yards/CH Robinson Area) and this elevator core already has a huge presence from the area. From that angle, the only thing that appears "past" the Sears are presidential towers and this.
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12/18 BMO Tower
From left to right: BofA Tower, BMO Tower (peeking up), and Salesforce Tower https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...9b73f9f4_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...83e5b6f8_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...2310880a_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...f48e5131_b.jpg |
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Some photos from yesterday:
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Is there any other US city seeing this large of a percentage of new buildings with blue glass recently constructed? |
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From their webcam this evening. Looks like the developers are a little superstitious - Skipping floor 13.
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and yeah as Sky mentioned 110 N Wacker... built or U/C: WPW, Salesforce, arguably Vista, Old Town Park(kinda), One Eleven, Legacy, 300 N LaSalle, Imprint, half of streeterville? proposed: 301 & 321 S Wacker, 330 N Clark (behind Reid Murdoch), Parcel O, conceptual renderings for tallest 3 towers of North Union, and likely prevalent in the 78 and Lincoln Yards.I'm sure there are others. Several people in the past have commented economic and environmental factors as to why these are all sprouting up, but it doesn't change the fact that they're overdone and, barring a few exceptions, detract from our status as an architecture capital. For the next 70+ years the confluence of our river is going to be mostly surrounded by blue towers... a prime location to showcase our architectural best for the world to see, and we popped up 5-6 blue boxes... not very inspiring |
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Come off of it. You think the 1970s were any better, with bronze-colored Mies towers and knockoffs going up everywhere? Or the 1920s with white terracotta (Burnham and knockoffs). These things move in cycles, especially for office towers.
Also don’t forget that a big portion of downtown office growth is now being provided in Fulton Market and River North midrises, and these are siphoning off a lot of the tenants who might want more interesting or quirky spaces. You can probably fold Class A adaptive reuse like March Mart and OPO into this category as well. Overwhelmingly the “blue glass boxes” are built for law and finance firms that want a sleek polished look. |
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Not sure we can even compare 1920's terracotta to these. Facade ornamentation on those seem beautifully designed for people up close, and the styles were unique enough to differentiate fairly far away. Not to mention the terracotta helped buildings become fire resistant, which was important... I don't see why you're keen on defending this track record... just because it's the way it is doesn't mean it should be like this. And my primary frustrations are around the confluence, for obvious reasons. Sprinkled throughout the city, these can be great (see One Chicago, BMO) and add to the textured cityscape we all love. But clustered and all around the same height... bleh. Grateful for all of the development we've had, but I'd gladly have it slow down a little bit if it meant increasing the quality and/or height of proposals in these iconic spots - Wolf Point, 300 N Michigan, 300 S Wacker twins, 110 N Wacker, 130 N Franklin come to mind. Quote:
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Absolutely, and what's more, the same is probably true for most of the world's supertall towers in most cities. That's not to say that a decent number of recent examples were not developer-driven (as opposed to very corporate-determined) - but that even most of those didn't come down to straight economics/efficiency etc. Vanity, ego, national statements of status, pride, whatever clearly have a lot to do with the actual height and form of so many of these towers above and beyond what simple economics would have produced. |
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What Chicago gets instead is buildings that are representative of their time period. When there’s a substantive change in technology or society’s habits, economy or ideology, Chicago architecture is better able to highlight that shift than other cities that are focused more on eye-catching style. For instance, a dominant (perhaps primary) theme of the current architectural era is demarcating public-private space. It’s the whole point of Hudson Yards, but they whiffed because of that project’s preoccupation with ‘iconic shapes’ and public art. Personally I don’t think sticking with basic designs is a bad thing at all since the constant pursuit of novelty for its own sake and instagrams-for-foreign-investors can make cities and people lose the plot and lose sight of other goals for their architecture. I think even the most basic Chicago blue boxes have grappled more honestly with the question of space and public interaction. Visibility vs privacy. Plaza vs Terrace vs Roof Deck. Signage. How to include balconies while avoiding the pockmarked condo look. Even Chicago’s most iconic and unusual buildings have very straightforward design philosophies behind them. Tribune Tower: The press and corporation as church and civic power Marina City: Car is King, Freedom from the straight line and right angle because of concrete Hancock Tower: Skyscraper as mixed use residential and commercial, tube structure and exterior bracing for open floor plans Vista (St. Regis): Undulating glass, how to make a sleek sculptural condo building with exterior spaces |
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If modern architecture means using new materials and technology to attempt cheaper, more efficient construction with an interest in social engineering, then it’s Chicago. That’s the point. If a region gets too stuck on aesthetics and novelty, it misses the boat on the deeper underlying societal trends. At almost every point of the past decade, NYC has the most flashy or iconic example of particular building design styles, but it’s very slow to respond to changing lifestyle preferences. — The Hancock Building didn’t start out with a developer saying, “I want a black trapezoidal building with giant X’s! It’ll be iconic!” At first the developer wanted separate regular office and residential towers, but there wasn’t enough space on the lot. So the architects decided on a tapered tower with offices that needed large floor plans on the bottom, and condos that needed more light on the top. Exterior trusses made for flexible floor plans and cheaper construction. — 860-880 Lake Shore Apartments sparks the use of steel and glass for residential towers. Viable because of WWII concrete and steel production surplus. — Marina City was the tallest (and I think first) post-war urban residential high rise. That’s what was so sensational about it; it was a conscious attempt to use the fantasy of a high-rise “City within a city” lifestyle to reverse urban flight. But it’s the forerunner of residential skyscrapers with parking podiums. — Perhaps Chicago modernism today is best demonstrated by having built Rush University Medical Center to ensure the city had the ICU capacity to respond to pandemics and not be forced to put patients in hallways and gift shops as seen in other large cities. |
When do you guys think this will top off.
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Hmmmm, March 1 for the core?
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Based on the construction cam from yesterday, it appears that the core has now reached the top of the mid rise elevator bank (floor 35), is about to be reduced down to 2 cells for the remaining core, and is now 1 or 2 floors above where the 2nd setback will be.
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What's crazier is that if NEMA II and 1000M are ever built (and eventually the 78 & more south loop infill), this section of our skyline would rival Los Angeles and Seattle, without hosting arguably any of our top 10 most iconic buildings
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(also, this stretch of bike path is in dire condition...) |
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